Sentences with phrase «pro-title-ii lobbyist groups»

Major telecoms, lobbyist groups and politicians sharply respond to president's call for greater regulation of internet as utility

The day after the New York Times published Gensler's remarks, lobbyist group Coin Center published a response from research director Peter Van Valkenburgh entitled «No, ether is not a security.»

Maybe you should stop listening to special interest lobbyist groups, taking the money and favors they offer, and listen to real people so you can solve real problems.

He talked the straightest out of the lot and was less manipulated by lobbyist groups or conventional politics.

About 79 % of persons appointed to various positions by our Presidents are people they have no knowledge about their competence, incompetence and general attitude, they are fixed there through manipulations by the various lobbyist groups in our parties, friends, cronies, family members, party executives etc to serve their parochial interests and these are the people who spearhead corruption in our public institutions.

I can appreciate the role of lobbyist groups, but citizens need to be able to «call BS» when it's the case.

Then on Monday, March 5, a spokesperson for the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the video game lobbyist group, said that it had received an invitation and would be attending.

An Australian lobbyist group called the Australian Council on Children and the Media are disgusted by the images of seeing a virtual massacre, which is up to the players to make sure the mission is a success.

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

In Australia, Sarah Laurie is a former general practitioner who is now unregistered and the CEO of the Waubra Foundation, an anti-wind lobbyist group with strong fossil fuel ties.

And, of course, he's the Vice-President of the anti-wind lobbyist group, Save the Eagles International, which appears to consist of him and the President.

half of the lobbyist groups mentioned are legally challenging the threat of manmade climate change, with court petitions against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas endangerment finding:

When pressed, Oliver was not able to identify which scientists he was using as a source, La Pressereported, but his staff pointed to an article by Lawrence Solomon, a Canadian writer and infamous climate - change skeptic and denier, and the founder and executive director of Energy Probe, an environmental policy organization and fossil fuel lobbyist group.

CREA has been too far removed from its members for years and is seen as some lobbyist group in central Canada pretending to act in the best interests of its Realtors.

CREA has been to far removed from its members for years and is seen as some lobbyist group in central Canada pretending to act in the best interests of its Realtors.

Not exact matches

The ever - increasing omniscience of internet giants like Facebook and Google has put many watchdog groups and civil rights lobbyists on red - alert.

Tony Podesta, the longtime Democratic lobbyist whose brother John is Clinton's campaign chairman, runs the Podesta Group, which has lobbied for Amgen, Merck, BIO, and the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

Michaela Sims, a lobbyist and spokesperson for the Save the Adoption Tax Credit working group, said these organizations had feared this since Brady's speech.

After listening to testimony from scores of scientists, bureaucrats, lobbyists, aboriginal chiefs and environmental groups, the committee dropped the whole affair like a bucket of tar.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

The consultant, Matthew C. Freedman, who is also a former lobbyist for foreign governments, runs his own corporate advisory firm and is treasurer of the American Australian Council, a group that helps promote business for American - based companies in Australia.

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $ 1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

The Trade Leadership Coalition, a separate industry - funded group headed by a former Caterpillar lobbyist, last week began airing pro-NAFTA advertisements in nine states that Trump won in 2016.

The Alberta Can't Wait group, backed by former Reform Party stalwarts Preston Manning and Cliff Fryers, lobbyist Hal Danchilla and 1980s Tory cabinet minister Rick Orman, and the Alberta Prosperity Fund, backed by former right - wing talk radio host Dave Rutherford, former MLAs Heather Forsyth and Shiraz Shariff, and former PC Party president Jim McCormick.

Mr. Protti is the founding President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and at that time was a registered lobbyist for the Energy Policy Institute of Canada, an energy industry lobby group.

The Katz Group has hired long - time PC - insider Peter Elzinga as a lobbyist and launched a political campaign to «Revitalize Downtown» in advance of the election.

Separately Wednesday, an environmental group released EPA emails it had obtained from a freedom - of - information lawsuit showing a former lobbyist for foreign governments persistently pitching Pruitt aides on a proposed official trip to Australia last summer.

As individuals you have the same right as any other citizen but as a group until you start paying taxes, not lobbyist, butt out and obey the laws made by the government.

Barbour, a former RNC chairman turned lobbyist for Mark Zuckerberg's «conservative» amnesty front group, is a living embodiment of the intersection of the Washington Republican operative class and the lobbying industry.

Crude and explicit materials, devoid of any reference to marriage or even to love, produced by groups with links to lobbyists promoting abortion and the «morning after» pill, have become the standard for sex education.

And the Transformations Steering Group turns out to be a gathering of lobbyists from groups with 70s - style acronyms, the Cof E's website informing us that «The Steering Group comprises 2 representatives proposed by each of the constituent groupings (DARC, NADAWM, WATCH & AWESOME) plus a senior woman from the Northern Province».

They are spiritual lobbyists who recognize the usefulness of groups to effect change.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

Religion has become little more than political special interest groups, complete with lobbyists, legislation tilted to their desires, voter blocs, and the rest of it.

«What we might do,» he said to the group of irrigator lobbyists, «is set up some sort of, something like Dropbox or something like that, where we can stick documents that we're sharing as just a safe way to get information around between us.»

Mr Hanlon told the group he had a strategy in hand if he was criticised for his relations with the lobbyists.

Of particular note to me are the direct ties of two of the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Association.

In other business, the district voted unanimously to renew its contract with the South Cook Organization for Public Schools, a group that has lobbyists in the Statehouse in Springfield to represent the interests of south and southwest suburban elementary schools.

Yesterday the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) AgMag Blog offered a much closer look at those corporate ties, as well as the role of SNA's lobbyists which, in addition to representing SNA, boast a roster of Big Food clients that includes General Mills, Kraft Foods, the North American Meat Association, the National Confectioners Association and the National Frozen Pizza Institute (whose members include Con Agra and Schwan.)

Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

All the while that King was Sharpton's official sidekick, he also was a registered lobbyist as the principal of a couple of companies of his, one actually named The Movement Group, which is what you call yourself when advocacy goes corporate.

«The group is made up of small business leaders, but also big business lobbyists, trade associations and other Albany insiders,» Caputo said.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has severed ties with the MirRam Group, home to powerhouse Latino lobbyist / consultant Roberto Ramirez, due to the firm's potential role in AG Andrew Cuomo's pay - to - play pension fund probe.

During this morning's JCOPE meeting the state ethics board released a draft report on disclosure rules requiring lobbyists and lobbying groups to disclose individual donors who give more than $ 5000.

Political parties, lobbyists, and interest groups will exist the same: in your voting platform you will need ways to make proposals stand out: how would you deal with 10000 proposals per week?

The bulk of the money among the highest spending groups was used on advertising and events, not lobbyist retention or compensation.

Education - oriented groups were the top lobbyists, conducting expensive and extensive campaigns as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a package education policy changes for teacher evaluations and charter schools.

They can take on many forms: politicians, lobbyists, advisors, donors, corporations, industry groups, labor unions, single - issue organizations, nonprofits, to name a few.

In addition to banning lobbyists from working on its staff, Senate Majority PAC staffers must now have their contact with congressional offices relating to the super PAC's activities pre-approved by the group's executive director or board members.